Kidsburgh: The Legend Behind Pittsburgh’s Own Mr. Yuk

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Fifty years ago, a Pittsburgh doctor created the Poison Control Center and the Mr. Yuk symbol.
When Dr. Richard Moriarty was a resident at UPMC Children’s Hospital, he realized the need for a Poison Control Center when a family got into a crash rushing to the hospital when they could have called ahead and learned the chemical was harmless.
“It was clear to me that we needed to let people know that there was a poison center because, frankly, most things that